Miracle of Health

July 13, 2025

 One of the memes I used to love said:  Men when their legs get amputated by a train: *man on a wheelchair going down the RedBull Mega Ramp *

Men when they get the common cold: *man  dying. * 

This meme was made in truth. I think I have covid right now because every time I get it, my back hurts super bad. But yeahhh... missionary work is a lot harder sick. 

Yesterday was Elder Rusts birthday, which I largly reaped the bennefits of because most of the members gave him cookies and he's allergic.

Miricle of the week: Waking up yesterday I felt like I got hit by a train and did nottt want to go to church, but I did anyway. I prayed for strength and didn't realize until after sacrament ended that I felt completely healthy. I felt great until I got home after church and it came back. I'm so glad I got the strength to help the ward during church.  It was fire. It was such a gradual improvement that I didn't notice until I felt completely fine, which I think was a test to see if I'd remember to be thankful for it.

I don't remember who it was, Sister Larsen I think, but someone said in their emails that if you bake snickerdoodle cookies for Koreans, they will quickly become addicted. Well we have a bunch of new members that needed visiting so we gave that a shot.  They absolutely do get addicted. It's hilarious. Apparently they don't have cookies that are soft here in Korea. What an absolute fumble on their part.

Korea has some absolute buns healthcare, not gonna lie. I have a fat ingrown toenail which has been pestering me for like 3 weeks and I've already gone to the hospital three times for it. Every time they just swab it with some Chlorhexidine and then swipe my card. I'm using personal funds btw. I'm about ready to fly my dad out here and fix this in 3 minutes flat. I got a ingrown toenail fixed the day before a 30 mile backpacking trip one time and was completely fine the whole trip. 

We had a fire first lesson with someone the previous Elders had visited a few times. He wanted to meet for English and when we thought the lesson was done we stood up. He protested and said, "We haven't read any Book of Mormon yet." which was a suprise, but we sat right back down and gladly did. Super cool that this guy was so eager to read the scriptures with us. 

We played basketball with our Jewish friend John this week. We don't think he's ever going to have much gospel interest but he was going to have a bunch of friends playing too, so we tried our luck and showed up. It was literally the most diverse basketball game I've ever played lol. There was a guy from Russia, Korea, Zambia, and of course the U.S. It was super fun and we were able to get 4 numbers from his friends on the court, as well as a two kids who we played with before his friends showed up. Super awesome. I was having a conversation with all of them and stopped them all mid convo to thank them all for learning my language, because all of us were speaking in English. I thought it was pretty cool that I was speaking to 3 people from different, non-english speaking countries--in English. They hadn't realized until I pointed that out and they also thought that was cool. 

Following the lead of Elder Parsons (Blackfoot friend), I made a top 30 movie list, which was hype. We sent 30 minute audios to each other explaining the what and why and both of us cooked honestly. If anyone wants to make one and send it to me I will gladly tell you why you are wrong. 

Spiritual Thought: 

Last week on the phone I told my Mom a story of Elder Rust and I at the church. We were super tired but were about to start out language study. I knew I wouldn't stay awake so we decided to go on a walk outside and wake up a bit. Outside of the church a man ran up to us and told us he had met with missionaries 7 years ago, but had lost contact with us. He wants to meet with us again soon. The geometry of the alley that we were walking in made him seeing us at the intersection very unlikely, which I accredit to a little bit of help from Heaven.

My mom said that it was because we were, "where we were supposed to be" that we were able to meet him. We didn't take a nap when we for dang sure wanted to.

It reminded me of the story of King David and Bathsheba. Some people say that David's first mistake was that he didn't look away, that he didn't disregard the temptation. I think his first mistake was in the first verse:  "And it came to pass, after the year was expired, at the time when kings go forth to battle, that David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel; and they destroyed the children of Ammon, and besieged Rabbah. But David tarried still at Jerusalem."

David was supposed to be with his army going to battle, but he "tarried still at Jerusalem." David wasn't where he was supposed to be, which opened up more potential for temptation. We're still gonna be tempted, even when we're doing everything as right as we can, but if we're where we're supposed to be we'll have a much easier time making the right decisions. 

Current Weight: 193.1 

Love y'all